Burger King plans apology after Twitter hack

Associated Press : Tue Feb 19 2013, 10:41 hrs

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Twitter acknowledged on Feb. 1 that cyber attackers may have stolen user names and passwords of 250,000 users. It said at the time that it notified users of the breach.

Competitors were sympathetic.

McDonald's responded on Twitter that it empathized with its Burger King counterparts. "Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking.''

"My real life nightmare is playing out'' on Burger King's twitter feed, wrote Wendy's social media worker Amy Rose Brown.

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